Lexical Summary katalegō: to lay down, choose out Original Word: καταλέγωTransliteration: katalegō Phonetic Spelling: (kat-al-eg'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to lay down, choose out Meaning: to lay down, choose out Strong's Concordance to enroll, place on a listFrom kata and lego (in its original meaning); to lay down, i.e. (figuratively) to enrol -- take into the number. see GREEK kata see GREEK lego Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2639: καταλέγωκαταλέγω: present passive imperative καταλεγέσθω; 1. properly, to lay down; middle to lie down (Homer). 2. to narrate at length, recount, set forth (from Homer on). 3. to set down in a list or register, to enroll (especially soldiers; see Passow, under the word, 5; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, II. 2 (yet the latter connect this use with the meaning of to choose))): of those widows who held a prominent place in the church and exercised a certain superintendence over the rest of the women, and had charge of the widows and orphans supported at public expense, 1 Timothy 5:9 (Winer's Grammar, 590 (549)); cf. DeWette (or Ellicott) at the passage. |
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